Sewing-machine table



(No Model.) M. G. BLAKE.

SEWING MACHINE TABLE. No. 387,040. Patented July 31, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MINNA G. BLAKE, OF VIOKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI.

SEWING-MACHINE TABLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,040, dated July 31, 1888.

Application filed January 24, 1888. Serial No. 261,747. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MINNA G. BLAKE, of the city of Vicksburg, and State of Mississippi, have invented certain Improvements in Sewing-Machine Tables, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for securing a removable and adjustable leaf to a sewingmachine table, to increase its width, and thereby prevent to a great extent the backward pull or drag of the work, as will hereinafter fully appear.

In the further description of the said invention which follows reference is made to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof, and in which Figure l is a perspective view of a sewingmachine table provided with a leaf in accordance with my invention; and Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of Fig. 1, taken on the dotted line 00 0c.

In the said drawings, A is the machine-table, and B the removable leaf. The leaf is curved at the side next to the operator, so as to not prevent the operators sitting up close to the table. The means for connecting the leaf to the table consists of a plate, 0, secured to the under side of the leaf, having a forked extension formed of an upper and a lower prong, re spectively, denoted by a and b. The inner side of the prong a is in alignment with the upper surface of the table, and its outer side is beveled to produce a sharpened point, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The lower prong, b, is provided with a thumb-screw, 0, whereby the device is securely held to the table.

In order that a single fastening device may be sufficient to hold the leaf to the table, I make the edge of the leaf to correspond in shape with that of the table, as shown in Fig. 1.

In Fig. l a portion of the sewing-machine is shown, and the needle thereof is denoted by d. The work is represented by 6.

It is evident that by increasing the distance from the needle to the front edge, over which the work falls or hangs,the weight of the pendent material is reduced; but it is impossible to increase the width of the entire table to the same extent that is obtained by the addition of the leaf B.

I claim as my invention In combination with a leaf adapted for application to the edge of a sewing-machine table, a clamp, 0, having the prongs a and b, the former having its inner side in alignment with the top of the leaf, and its outer side beveled, as shown, and the latter provided with a thumbscrew, a, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

MINNA G. BLAKE.

\Vitnesses:

WALLACE SAUOIER, J. J. OURTIs. 

